Dr Reddy’s selects AWS as preferred cloud provider to develop affordable, innovative medicines – ET HealthWorld

Dr Reddy’s selects AWS as preferred cloud provider to develop affordable, innovative medicines – ET HealthWorld

Hyderabad: Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Limited (Dr Reddy’s) has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help provide access to affordable and innovative medicines. As part of the collaboration, the company has entirely migrated its SAP platform to AWS. By centralising the platform on the world’s leading cloud, Dr … Read more

Big data, AI and ML helping us create better connect with customers: Niva Bupa – ET HealthWorld

Big data, AI and ML helping us create better connect with customers: Niva Bupa – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Niva Bupa Health Insurance Company Limited has invested in building digital expertise across the entire value chain and be it onboarding customers or settling claims, everything is digital, he said. “More than 50 per cent of our policies get issued with zero human touch entirely digitally, and about 90 per cent of our … Read more

Infosys to Develop Quantum Computing Capabilities on Amazon Web Services

Infosys to Develop Quantum Computing Capabilities on Amazon Web Services

Infosys on Wednesday announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop quantum computing capabilities and use cases. Infosys will use Amazon Braket to explore and build multiple use cases in quantum computing as part of Infosys Cobalt cloud offerings. Amazon Braket is a fully managed quantum computing service that helps scientists and developers get … Read more

Intel to Build Qualcomm Chips, Aims to Catch Foundry Rivals by 2025

Intel to Build Qualcomm Chips, Aims to Catch Foundry Rivals by 2025

Intel said on Monday its factories will start building Qualcomm chips and laid out a roadmap to expand its new foundry business to catch rivals such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and Samsung by 2025. Amazon will be another new customer for the foundry chip business, said Intel, which for decades held the lead … Read more

Amazon buys encrypted messaging app Wickr

Amazon buys encrypted messaging app Wickr

Amazon said Friday it was acquiring the encrypted messaging app Wickr which offers secure communications for businesses, government agencies and individuals. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Amazon said in a statement it would incorporate Wickr in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division which offers cloud computing and other services. AWS will continue to … Read more

G7 countries move closer to tax plan for US tech giants

G7 countries move closer to tax plan for US tech giants

G7 countries that make up lucrative markets for US tech giants have moved closer to a plan to squeeze more tax money from the coffers of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The group, including Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, has visions of a global tax rate of at least 15 … Read more

Lawsuit in US accuses Amazon of ‘systemic’ racism in corporate offices

Lawsuit in US accuses Amazon of ‘systemic’ racism in corporate offices

A lawsuit filed in US federal court on Monday accused Amazon of keeping women and Black employees down while publicly talking up the need for diversity and social justice. Charlotte Newman, who is Black and heads Underrepresented Founder Startup Business Development at Amazon Web Services, said in the suit she has been harassed, sexually assaulted, … Read more

All You Need to Know About Amazon’s Incoming CEO Andy Jassy

All You Need to Know About Amazon’s Incoming CEO Andy Jassy

Incoming Amazon Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy cuts a low profile outside of the wonky world of cloud computing. But for much of the last decade he’s been arguably the most important person in the tech industry. The unit he leads, Amazon Web Services, has reshaped how companies buy technology, by simplifying computing services into … Read more

Intel’s Habana Starts to Chip Away at Nvidia in Cloud With AWS Deal

Intel’s Habana Starts to Chip Away at Nvidia in Cloud With AWS Deal

Intel Corp’s Habana Labs business said on Wednesday it would take time to gain market share from Nvida in cloud and data centre computing but its deal this week with Amazon Web Services (AWS) was a solid first step. Intel in December bought Israel-based artificial intelligence firm Habana for about $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,700 … Read more

Amazon Web Services Taps Own Chips for New Supercomputing Offering

Amazon Web Services Taps Own Chips for New Supercomputing Offering

Amazon’s cloud unit on Tuesday offered a new supercomputing service based on its self-designed processors, a further sign of how chips based on Arm’s technology are encroaching on Intel and Advanced Micro Devices turf. Amazon Web Services, or AWS, sells its computing services based on the customer’s choice of an underlying central processor chip. Software developers have … Read more